I hadn’t seen Arno Gourdol’s weblog before his aforelinked entry on the Mac OS X shutdown feature, but back in September he published a piece about how ‘.DS_Store’ files got their name. (It stands for “Desktop Services Store”.)

I’ve been biting my tongue for a few years now, and while John
Siracusa had been a thoughtful critic of the Mac OS X Finder, I
must say I agree with almost everything he has to say about the
Finder. … We actually used printouts of John’s columns to try to
influence the decision makers at the time, as sometimes a voice
from the outside is given more weight than a chorus on the
inside. Unfortunately, there were powerful forces at work.